SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in CENTRAL VALLEY, New York, part of MONROE-WOODBURY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 467 students, covering grades K through 1.

Across the 7 schools in MONROE-WOODBURY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,315 students total), SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 24% White, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,178, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. SMITH CLOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 82 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students).

MONROE-WOODBURY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 523 students in 2018 compared to 467 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 35% to 61%.

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